A number of farmers in the Peace Region have been dealing with wet weather damaging their crops.
Jess Verstappen, a crop inputs rep with Cargill in McLennan, says around Falher, High Prairie and Valleyview, about 50 per cent of the fields there went unseeded this year.
“We’re definitely noticing a lot of struggles with the moisture. Crops are not doing very good in most areas. The earlier seeded crops were doing ok, but there wasn’t a whole lot we were able to get in early, especially with how much moisture we’ve had over the last few years. It seems to all have compounded this year.”
Verstappen says harvest has been a struggle for many farms in the area.
“There actually had to be quite a bit of spring threshed done this year, but the year before that, June was a really wet month. Two years ago, we had six inches of rain one weekend here in Big Lakes County. The amount of soil moisture in this area has just been adding on.”
Agricultural disasters have recently been declared in Big Lakes County and the County of Northern Lights.
– Kyle Moore, Trending 55 Newsroom
